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Did Companies See Summer Slumps in 2021? We Analyzed 103,000 Businesses to Find Out
This summer — as countries reopened — people who’d been stuck inside were finally breathing a cautious sigh of relief. At the same time, some company leaders were doing the opposite. Why? In past years, entire industries saw summer slumps — or seasonal dips in sales or web traffic. This year, business leaders expected sharper dips as more consumers finally unplugged. Aside from this, they were also dealing with frequent HR requests from employees who’d been waiting months to take vacations or change companies entirely. In fact, the Society of Human Resources Management reported that 41% of employees felt burnt […]
Marketing Reporting Examples: How to Build and Analyze Marketing Reports
As a marketer, I make crucial daily decisions that can impact the company I work for. Using my best judgment, I track important metrics like traffic, leads, and customers — and I provide a marketing report to back up my decisions. While the above metrics are crucial to my marketing funnel and flywheel, a marketing report helps me further explore my findings and properly analyze the data to make the best decisions I can for my team and company. Marketing reports aren‘t just vital for my work, they’re key to any marketer looking to do what‘s right for their organization. […]
What Is Marketing Attribution & How Do You Report on It?
Marketers engage with customers on more channels than ever before. Whether you’re working with influencers or posting short-form videos, it makes marketing attribution essential for continued results. This is because the buyer’s journey is far from linear. Consumers engage with brands through multiple touchpoints before they make a purchase. For a lot of marketers, getting visibility into the most effective touchpoints can be tough. They have to wade through cobbled data from different sources, spend hours crunching numbers in spreadsheets, or wait for a marketing ops resource to help them. Unless they’re using marketing attribution reporting. But what is marketing […]
KPI Dashboards & How to Use Them in Your Marketing
As a business leader, a big part of your responsibilities involves ensuring existing projects and initiatives within your organization are on track while creating space for smart new strategies. But with a million and one other things fighting for your attention, it can sometimes be challenging to stay up to date. Fortunately, there’s a tool to help you succeed: KPI dashboards. KPI dashboards can help you check in with various aspects of your business and make sure everything’s running smoothly. Let’s take a closer look at what KPI dashboards are and what they can do to help your marketing team […]
The Ultimate Guide to Google Data Studio in 2020
Having the ability to visualize data helps you unlock invaluable insights for better decision-making in your business and gives you a serious advantage when it comes to getting competitive opportunities. While many tools can help you visualize data, none compare to Google Data Studio, which is entirely free and accessible to all (even if you don’t have any data of your own!). Like most Google tools, Data Studio can be hard to master, but it’s well worth it. Once you’ve gotten comfortable with its features, you can use it to create stunning and informative reports for your clients, coworkers, or […]
How to Calculate Marketing ROI [+Free Excel Templates]
If you can prove that your marketing activities actually made an impact on your business, you’ll have many more opportunities (and budget) to grow your marketing efforts. Sounds like a marketer’s dream, right? But how do you find the right metrics to measure and prove marketing ROI to your boss and stakeholders? With the help of this guide and a free marketing ROI excel template, you’ll learn how to calculate your marketing ROI with Excel to secure more resources for your marketing team. For example, if you’ve been running an $800 marketing campaign for three months, and average sales revenue […]